Yahoo! Sports is reporting that HBO will chronicle the events leading up to next year's New Year's Day game between the Red Wings and
Toronto Maple Leafs at Michigan Stadium.

"HBO 24/7: Road to The NHL Winter Classic" will return for Season
3, NHL chief operating officer John Collins told Yahoo! and the stars will be the Red Wings and Maple Leafs.

"We're
going to work a little more closely with HBO on production," Collins told
Yahoo! "We've been in partnership with them, but now that we have an original
productions group here, we're going to work a little more closely with them on
the production side. I think it's going to be more of a collaboration. To the
fan, they won't see any difference in production whatsoever. We're not going to
limit access. We're not going to change any approval rights. There won't be
anything different about this."

No formal
announcement on the program has been made by HBO or the NHL.

Next year
will mark the second time the Red Wings have participated in the Winter Classic. They
played the Chicago Blackhawks in 2009 at Wrigley Field.